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CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/iwcm: Fix workqueue list corruption by removing work_list
The commit e1168f0 ("RDMA/iwcm: Simplify cm_event_handler()")
changed the work submission logic to unconditionally call
queue_work() with the expectation that queue_work() would
have no effect if work was already pending. The problem is
that a free list of struct iwcm_work is used (for which
struct work_struct is embedded), so each call to queue_work()
is basically unique and therefore does indeed queue the work.
This causes a problem in the work handler which walks the work_list
until it's empty to process entries. This means that a single
run of the work handler could process item N+1 and release it
back to the free list while the actual workqueue entry is still
queued. It could then get reused (INIT_WORK...) and lead to
list corruption in the workqueue logic.
Fix this by just removing the work_list. The workqueue already
does this for us.
This fixes the following error that was observed when stress
testing with ucmatose on an Intel E830 in iWARP mode:
[ 151.465780] list_del corruption. next->prev should be ffff9f0915c69c08, but was ffff9f0a1116be08. (next=ffff9f0a15b11c08)
[ 151.466639] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 151.466986] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:67!
[ 151.467349] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 151.467753] CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 2306 Comm: kworker/u64:18 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc4+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 151.468466] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 151.469192] Workqueue: 0x0 (iw_cm_wq)
[ 151.469478] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xf0/0x100
[ 151.469942] Code: c7 58 5f 4c b2 e8 10 50 aa ff 0f 0b 48 89 ef e8 36 57 cb ff 48 8b 55 08 48 89 e9 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 a8 5f 4c b2 e8 f0 4f aa ff <0f> 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90
[ 151.471323] RSP: 0000:ffffb15644e7bd68 EFLAGS: 00010046
[ 151.471712] RAX: 000000000000006d RBX: ffff9f0915c69c08 RCX: 0000000000000027
[ 151.472243] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9f0a37d9c600
[ 151.472768] RBP: ffff9f0a15b11c08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffff7fff
[ 151.473294] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffb15644e7bba8 R12: ffff9f092339ee68
[ 151.473817] R13: ffff9f0900059c28 R14: ffff9f092339ee78 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 151.474344] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f0a847b5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 151.474934] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 151.475362] CR2: 0000559e233a9088 CR3: 000000020296b004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
[ 151.475895] PKRU: 55555554
[ 151.476118] Call Trace:
[ 151.476331] <TASK>
[ 151.476497] move_linked_works+0x49/0xa0
[ 151.476792] __pwq_activate_work.isra.46+0x2f/0xa0
[ 151.477151] pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x1e0/0x2f0
[ 151.477479] process_scheduled_works+0x1c8/0x410
[ 151.477823] worker_thread+0x125/0x260
[ 151.478108] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 151.478430] kthread+0xfe/0x240
[ 151.478671] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 151.478955] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 151.479240] ret_from_fork+0x208/0x270
[ 151.479523] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 151.479806] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 151.480103] </TASK>
RDMA/iwcm: Fix workqueue list corruption by removing work_list
The commit e1168f0 ("RDMA/iwcm: Simplify cm_event_handler()")
changed the work submission logic to unconditionally call
queue_work() with the expectation that queue_work() would
have no effect if work was already pending. The problem is
that a free list of struct iwcm_work is used (for which
struct work_struct is embedded), so each call to queue_work()
is basically unique and therefore does indeed queue the work.
This causes a problem in the work handler which walks the work_list
until it's empty to process entries. This means that a single
run of the work handler could process item N+1 and release it
back to the free list while the actual workqueue entry is still
queued. It could then get reused (INIT_WORK...) and lead to
list corruption in the workqueue logic.
Fix this by just removing the work_list. The workqueue already
does this for us.
This fixes the following error that was observed when stress
testing with ucmatose on an Intel E830 in iWARP mode:
[ 151.465780] list_del corruption. next->prev should be ffff9f0915c69c08, but was ffff9f0a1116be08. (next=ffff9f0a15b11c08)
[ 151.466639] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 151.466986] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:67!
[ 151.467349] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 151.467753] CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 2306 Comm: kworker/u64:18 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc4+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 151.468466] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 151.469192] Workqueue: 0x0 (iw_cm_wq)
[ 151.469478] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xf0/0x100
[ 151.469942] Code: c7 58 5f 4c b2 e8 10 50 aa ff 0f 0b 48 89 ef e8 36 57 cb ff 48 8b 55 08 48 89 e9 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 a8 5f 4c b2 e8 f0 4f aa ff <0f> 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 90 90 90 90 90 90
[ 151.471323] RSP: 0000:ffffb15644e7bd68 EFLAGS: 00010046
[ 151.471712] RAX: 000000000000006d RBX: ffff9f0915c69c08 RCX: 0000000000000027
[ 151.472243] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9f0a37d9c600
[ 151.472768] RBP: ffff9f0a15b11c08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffff7fff
[ 151.473294] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffb15644e7bba8 R12: ffff9f092339ee68
[ 151.473817] R13: ffff9f0900059c28 R14: ffff9f092339ee78 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 151.474344] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f0a847b5000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 151.474934] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 151.475362] CR2: 0000559e233a9088 CR3: 000000020296b004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
[ 151.475895] PKRU: 55555554
[ 151.476118] Call Trace:
[ 151.476331] <TASK>
[ 151.476497] move_linked_works+0x49/0xa0
[ 151.476792] __pwq_activate_work.isra.46+0x2f/0xa0
[ 151.477151] pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x1e0/0x2f0
[ 151.477479] process_scheduled_works+0x1c8/0x410
[ 151.477823] worker_thread+0x125/0x260
[ 151.478108] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 151.478430] kthread+0xfe/0x240
[ 151.478671] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 151.478955] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 151.479240] ret_from_fork+0x208/0x270
[ 151.479523] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 151.479806] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 151.480103] </TASK>
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-45898
Source
Linux
Published
May 27, 2026 at 12:17
Modified
May 30, 2026 at 10:45
Affected Product
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Version
e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237
Affected Versions
Linux Linux e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237
Linux Linux e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237
Linux Linux e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237
Linux Linux e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237
Linux Linux 6.11
Linux Linux e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237
Linux Linux e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237
Linux Linux e1168f09b3314992f1c5251f3793102035da7237
Linux Linux 6.11